- published: 02 Oct 2015
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Jacks (sometimes called jackstones, jackrocks, fivestones, onesies, knucklebones, jax, or snobs) is a playground game for children.
Traditionally, jacks are metal objects bearing six tips at right angles to one another, four of which are usually rounded, with two opposite tips more pointed. This ensures the jack is relatively easy to pick up. Also required is a small rubber ball, used as a sort of timing device: the jacks are manipulated in the time it takes the ball to bounce up in the air and return to the height of the hand that catches it.
The players decide who goes first, usually through "flipping" (when the set of jacks is placed in cupped hands, flipped to the back of the hands, and then back to cupped hands again; the player who keeps the most from falling in his/her turn, goes first); or perhaps via ip dip, (or Eeny, meeny, miny, moe), or a variant. Then the jacks are scattered loosely into the play area. The players take it in turn to bounce the ball off the ground, then pick up jacks, and then catch the ball before it bounces for a second time. The number of jacks to be picked up is pre-ordained and sequential: at first you must pick up one ("onesies"), next two ("twosies"), and so on. Depending on the total number of jacks included, the number may not divide evenly and there may be jacks left over. If the player chooses to pick up the leftover jacks first, one variation is to announce this by saying "horse before carriage" or "queens before kings." The playing area should be decided between the players since there is no official game rule about that.
Why don't you write me,darling
send me a letter,
tell me you love me dear
make me feel better
I love you
yes it's you I adore
(you I adore)
when I first met you darling
I realized and for you dear
I did advise please darling
won't you send me a line(send me a line)
I miss you so each day
although you're gone away
I guess I'll love you more and more
and as the days go by
I sometimes often cry